martedì 15 maggio 2012

Urgent: The Bombs Case trial is suspended

URGENT: THE BOMBS CASE TRIAL IS SUSPENDED.
The prosecution’s tricks and ruses could annul the whole trial.

On May 11, 2012, the court of appeals
decided this time to accept a challenge made by the Southern Prosecution
of the Ministry of the Interior in which the judges are accused of bias
and lacking in impartiality.

Courtroom one of the appeals court voted in the majority to accept
the challenge, immediately paralyzing the trial. The judges who have
until recently carried out the trial — Marcela Duran Sandoval, Carlos
Carrillo and Blanca Rojas — of the Third Oral Criminal Tribunal will
have to send out report soon about the accusations that the prosecution
is making, while meanwhile the ruling indicated that they should
“abstain from further intervention” until the challenge is resolved.
Which in other words means the complete and absolute stoppage of the
bombs case political trial, which has already gone on for more than 107
days of hearings, and almost 6 months of inquisitorial process.
The trial was continuing its course, and had gotten to the
presentation of evidence and witnesses by Francisco Solar’s defense,
Mónica Caballero’s defense, and it was at Omar Hermosilla’s defense when
the trial was paralyzed.
This resolution comes during the recesses when the next thing was for
the Minister of the Interior Rodrigo Hinzpeter and the ex-prosecutor
Alejandro Peña to testify as part of Omar’s defense’s evidence.
It is clear that the political and juridical pressures were able to
do more and continue bogging down this process and legal accusation that
has regrettably lasted for almost 2 years, just when the trial was
about to end.
The situation following the “challenge” is still unknown. If it is
accepted and approved, it would automatically disqualify the 3 judges
and the trial would have to happen again with new judges, on the other
hand if this suspension extends the trial it could run the risk of
annulment due to a legal framework that prevents a trial from being
valid if it is suspended for more than a certain number of days.
On Monday May 14 in the court, the disqualification of the judges and the suspension of the trial will be discussed.
For his part, the prosecutor Víctor Nuñez indicated with an ironic
smile that they had asked the Court of Appeals that “they announce in
advance the judgment that we have detected coming down the pipeline. It
was not intended to annul the trial.” Obviously his sole motivation is
the annulment of the trial.
Far from the technical and legal language with which they seek to bog
down the whole process and turn it into a labyrinth, it is necessary to
understand a couple of things. During the 6 months that the trial has
lasted, the prosecution has gone to absurd lengths trying to incorporate
the dismissed “Illicit Terrorist Association” as a concept, in links,
and in evidence that would prove this crime. On the other hand, and
different from what many think, the prosecution has not given this trial
up as lost and will try at any cost to dirty any process for the
purpose of winning gains and future sentences. The prosecutors’ pride
gives no truce, and they seek to demonstrate the exemplary punishment
with whoever has questioned the order of their world.
At the same time, we again repeat and make evident the real
motivation and the players of this legal ploy. Papers like “El Mercurio”
knew about and published this resolution even before the defense’s own
lawyers, repeating what happened in August 2010 when the press gave the
names of those arrested before the arrests happened. The move could be
for different reasons: Intentions to annul the trial, in order to change
the tribunal [the 3 judges], to prolong and indefinitely extend the
case, to avoid the statements from Hinzpeter or Alejandro Peña, to
hinder the presentation of evidence and witnesses by the defense, to
intimidate the judges who fall against them, to pressure the tribunal a
few days before they dictate the sentence, maybe separately or maybe all
of them together.

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Letters from Anarchist Prisoners of the "Bombs Case" in Chile

This document is a collection of letters from the Chilean anarchist “Bombs Case” prisoners, in an effort to share and spread their ideas beyond the prison walls. On August 14th, 2010, fourteen anarchists and anti-authoritarians were arrested in a series of raids in Santiago in what became known as the `Bombs Case`. They were accused of a series of bombings against capital and the state that took place around Santiago in the previous years, as well as of “criminal conspiracy” under the Pinochet-era Anti-Terrorist Laws. Since then, following a hunger strike by the prisoners, as well as countless solidarity actions from around the world, the charges against nine of the accused have been dropped (one of these people is facing other charges in a separate trial), but charges against five comrades remain. They are: Omar Hermosilla and Carlos Riveros, accused of providing the money to finance the costs of the attacks, as well as Mónica Caballero, Felipe Guerra, Francisco Solar, accused of the placement of the explosive devices at different points in Santiago. The trial started on November 28, 2011. Prisoners kidnapped by the State to the street! click the cover PDF